my name is julia. i'm married to the most wonderful man and we have two children: a boy and a girl. i love being a mother, a wife and a creative person. i knit socks and crochet. i make books, cards and work on mixed media projects - mainly canvas and when the mood strikes me, i art journal or sew.

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Feb 16, 2017

sock yarn blanket #1

i keep the smaller balls of left overs in this wooden bowl on the edge of our sofa table - they just get lost in the basket. next to it i have some colours picked out to use next in my blanket.

i've just finished row five and i just adore watching it grow and i can't wait for it to get bigger and bigger...

this is where i left off after christmas. i actually pulled out the square you see in progress there and used a different yarn for it. during the middle half of january i took a break from blanket knitting because i needed the needles for another project and i only have one set of these.

isn't the variety just awesome? i love it so much! so far i've only used the same yarn more than once when the colourway or pattern repeat was much longer than i needed for one square. i will see how far i get this way. i may use colours that i've used in the beginning again much later when it's not immediately obvious - as it would be if they were only one or two rows apart. this works for me and it keeps me working on my socks as well. i don't use yarns for the blanket that i haven't made socks with yet. (except for the minis that were in my advent calendar of course.)

well, i'm off to do a little house work (and more knitting - we'll see what gets done first)...

i hope you are all well and enjoy whatever you are up to! lots of love!

p.s.: i use 3mm needles, cast on 55 stitches per square and decrease two stitches on every right-side row.

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i keep the smaller balls of left overs in this wooden bowl on the edge of our sofa table - they just get lost in the basket. next to it i have some colours picked out to use next in my blanket.

i've just finished row five and i just adore watching it grow and i can't wait for it to get bigger and bigger...

this is where i left off after christmas. i actually pulled out the square you see in progress there and used a different yarn for it. during the middle half of january i took a break from blanket knitting because i needed the needles for another project and i only have one set of these.

isn't the variety just awesome? i love it so much! so far i've only used the same yarn more than once when the colourway or pattern repeat was much longer than i needed for one square. i will see how far i get this way. i may use colours that i've used in the beginning again much later when it's not immediately obvious - as it would be if they were only one or two rows apart. this works for me and it keeps me working on my socks as well. i don't use yarns for the blanket that i haven't made socks with yet. (except for the minis that were in my advent calendar of course.)

well, i'm off to do a little house work (and more knitting - we'll see what gets done first)...

i hope you are all well and enjoy whatever you are up to! lots of love!

p.s.: i use 3mm needles, cast on 55 stitches per square and decrease two stitches on every right-side row.